Really Surprised!

A bit overrated, but still an amazing film

Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

I'm open to all kinds of teaching about life values, positivity, and similar. But I only made it about twenty minutes through this movie. I turned it off when he said that financial wealth and spirituality are basically one and the same. Not only is that an insult to poor people today, but by this measure almost every religious leader in human history must not have been spiritual after all.The man preaches a very similar message to televangelists, except he specifically says that he deserves the money, because his message makes people feel good."Imagine a world where the people who gave you the most spiritual message received the most money", he oozes to an adoring congregation and their wallets.The whole movie seems nothing more than a marketing vehicle to sell ⎯ and emphasis on the 'sell' ⎯ his message, in its various formats. Other than the selling his message is nothing new. It's 'the universe loves you' and 'you should love yourself more and think about your own desires more'.As a movie the whole thing is pretty hokey. The acting is unconvincing, the characters are stereotypes, and the script is riddled with clichés.I give it one star solely for his introductory line, which was actually very good: "Everything we do is either motivated by love or by fear". If only that message had been further explored, instead of the rapid sidestep into patronizing false humility and money-grabbing.

this is supposed to be the type of movies that i like but...unfortunately, fails to click. I find some of the good stuff that happens 'too good to be true' for someone of his situation (maybe the movie should make it more realistic) , the 'conversation' too cheesy at times, & i wasn't convinced in the last scene where he had to answer a difficult question posed by a bystander...I DO NOT BELIEVE that answer at that last scene is 'qualified' enough to be one that god would have said himself. It actually sounds to me like a person who finds DEATH as a solution to everything will present an answer like that. God would have said something much better and befitting to his wisdom. I don't know if this is really based on something that really happened, and i don't know how close this movie is to the book, but this movie, to me , did not do its job nicely.

This Christian had to force himself to watch what was otherwise a poorly acted, turgid film so riddled with holes it was laughable--just to see what all the fuss was about. The answer: A quest for a sugar-coated spirituality in which we make God in our image. Every 45 seconds, it seemed, we were sledge-hammered with another psycho-babble-larded lecture about self-fulfillment. Consider, for instance, the theology of money presented in this film: It's phony and self- serving. Early in the film Walsch asks why the people who give the most to the world don't receive the most $$$$. Fair enough; who wouldn't agree? But it's a setup to paper over the bankruptcy of the much later scene in which his agent arm-twists another half-million out of his publisher. Question: If the writer had become so connected to God, why did he sit so quietly during the extortion scene? For that matter, why didn't he give his advice away for free, as, say, Jesus did? In fact, that was my biggest problem with the movie: I found nothing likable about the main character (or the others, for that matter, who came across as codependent losers). By the time he got around to distributing those fat cash-packed envelopes, he had lost me. This movie purports to convey that God is with you in your worst moments and will help you lift yourself up. That's a message worth telling over and over. But the real message that comes across is that there are big bucks to be made in spouting clichés about self-development and easy answers for life's most difficult questions (such as, Why did my son die in a motorcycle accident?) Having survived the movie, I think I'll pass on Walsch's books and watered-down spirituality, and stick to Jesus and the breaking of bread, not the making of ($$$), for my connection with God.

Proving the so-called spiritual genre still has an awfully long way to go before feeling half has meaningful as underlying content would suggest, this quest for meaning and purpose remains ironically dull for it's intended purpose. Rather then adapting Neale Donald Walsch's massively successful spiritual dialogs, the film version of Conversations with God plays more like a biography, detailing the catalyst behind this reluctant author's unique journey which saw him living on the streets to becoming an international bestseller.In a film plagued with bad choices, choosing to go the docudrama route proves one of the only wise decisions, producing a few of the Lifetime-worthy affair's only authentic and moving sequences. It is a testament to the inept direction then, when any and all emotional sincerity takes place during the initial struggling and unanimously subsides when relaying the inspirational turn of events that will fail to inspire the viewer. Proving quite contradictory indeed, the more Conversations with God presses on the book's inspirational themes of love, surrender, and other random insights, the less impact any previously watched glimmer of truth seems to reap.There is just a massive divide between parlaying this intensely personal information in a way that does not feel trite, even laughably condescending, to all but the most ardent of sheep-fans... Meaning, until dedicated efforts into this budding genre begin translating our inner spiritual discussions more believably by refining their techniques into many more subtle shades of consciousness, they will continue to bare the new-age brunt of jokes, contradict what they so earnestly try to capture, and give moviegoers every which reason to extract spiritual qualities from other genres that unconsciously produce this sentiment so much clearer, with a lot less strain. For the few heartfelt moments that detail Walsch's struggle with homelessness, the film rises above the emotional sterile, Hallmark-prone manipulation that the majority seems to be. However, anyone who is not already begging to enjoy this movie, having been a rabid fan of the author's work, has every right to leer in cynical jest at the film's unintentionally ironic tone of detached insincerity.